Let’s say you’ve already spent some time in the United States Army, a vicious colonial project that in recent years has been weaponized by a government with even more openly fascistic tendencies than ...
Hello [local business owner]! I see that you've started posting new ads and menus on Facebook, Instagram and sometimes even outside your store on physical signs, and they're starting to look ...
I know I’m writing about Big Walk a lot this week, but that’s because it’s taken up most of my non-work time. Chris and I helped Nicole play through it, and because the host of a game hangs on to the ...
When Dark Souls II came out in 2014, I previewed and reviewed it for Kotaku. After I played the Looking Glass Knight demo at E3, I gushed to a friend that they had not fucked it up. This had been a ...
Emily Wilson is an accomplished academic and a renowned scholar in the field of Homeric epics. Her 2017 translation of The Odyssey, which shaped the text into iambic pentameter, has sold over a ...
As more and more dipshit managers mandate (or at least heavily encourage) the use of AI in the office, more and more workers are being confronted with a choice: do as they're told and help contribute ...
Demonschool developer Necrosoft Games is hosting an itch.io bundle directing funds to the Communication Workers of America's United Videogame Workers Game Industry Hardship Fund. The bundle pulls ...
Palmer Lucky is an evil fucking worm and dipshit beneficiary of government contracts. He’s the Oculus jackass with a shitty soul patch who runs a military defense company called Anduril. I could ...
I am taking the opportunity this week to get something off my chest, something I haven’t been able (or willing) to share so publicly before: I hate Souls games. All of them. Even the ones that don’t ...
It’s one thing to hate software, but that hate takes on new dimensions when you have to use it for your job. To choose software and have it fail is unfortunate; to be chained to it for sustenance and ...
At this point it would be easier to list the things that haven’t been enshittified by AI, but on a case-by-case basis, I can often avoid it. Yeah, I think Stripe and my health insurance and my ...
When the Steam Machine was first announced, a non-zero number of people zeroed in on a single accessory in the video. The Steam Machine takes swappable faceplates, allowing for customization, and the ...